Mario Velarde Velázquez (29 March 1940 – 19 August 1997) was a Mexican
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, who played for the
Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) between 1962 and 1972. He was part of the Mexico squad for the FIFA World Cup tournaments (
1962) and
1970
Events
January
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Career
Born in
San Ángel
San Ángel is a Colonia (Mexico), colonia or neighborhood of Mexico City, located in the southwest in Álvaro Obregón, D.F., Álvaro Obregón borough. Historically, it was a rural community, called Tenanitla in the pre-Hispanic period. Its curren ...
, Velarde played football for
Necaxa
Impulsora del Deportivo Necaxa S.A. de C.V. (); often simply known as Necaxa, is a Mexican professional football club in Liga MX based in the city of Aguascalientes. It plays in the Estadio Victoria.
History
Foundation (Light and Power Comp ...
and
Pumas. He scored 64 league goals for Pumas.
Velarde Coached the
Mexican Youth Team in the
1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship was the fourth edition FIFA World Youth Championship tournament, hosted from 2 June to 19 June 1983 in seven venues in Mexico — Guadalajara, Irapuato, León, Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla and Toluca — wh ...
.
References
External links
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Biography of Mario Velarde
1940 births
1997 deaths
Association football midfielders
Mexico international footballers
1962 FIFA World Cup players
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Club Universidad Nacional footballers
Club Necaxa footballers
Club Universidad Nacional managers
Cruz Azul managers
Deportivo Toluca F.C. managers
Mexico national football team managers
Footballers from Mexico City
Liga MX players
Mexican footballers
Mexican football managers
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